Sunday Service — February 4, 2023

Of Dog Whistles and Fig Leaves: How Modern Racism Hides in Plain Sight ~ Speaker Rev. Kim Wilson

As author Gary Younge has observed, for too long we have pretended that we are a post-racial society, and that racism is “the marginal obsession of the uncouth.” The reality is that “we have simply become more sophisticated about our prejudices. We have plenty of racism, but apparently very few racists.” As UUs committed to antiracism, it’s important that we learn to identify today’s more covert forms of racism and to expose them for what they truly are.